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Church of Saint Lawrence, Renaissance church in Sobotín, Czech Republic.

The Church of Saint Lawrence is a single-nave, oriented church of the preaching type, 26 m long, 8.5 m wide and 9.5 m high, with a five-sided east end. Its facade is divided by six rectangular buttresses with ochre-painted decoration imitating stone blocks, and a prismatic tower with an onion dome stands at the west front. The interior has a barrel vault with geometric stucco and a two-storey wooden gallery.

A church with a parish is documented in Sobotín in 1350 and confirmed by a papal charter of Clement VI issued in Avignon in 1351. The present building replaced an old evangelical prayer house and was erected in 1605–1607 under Jan of Žerotín; the foundation stone was laid in April 1607, work took 28 weeks, and the first sermon followed on 14 October 1607. The architect was Antonio Thoma, and construction was financed mainly by donations from the inhabitants of Sobotín, Vernířovice and Rudoltice.

The church's name comes from Saint Lawrence, to whom the main altar is dedicated; the 1790 altarpiece by Ferdinand Licht was restored by Antonín Aust in the late 19th century. A memorial plaque by the church recalls the 1678 host incident and the witch trials that followed, in which the Sobotín reeve Axmann and his wife were burned. The church also holds a wooden statue of Christ at the column from the early 17th century.

The church is easiest to visit from nearby villages in the Šumperk region. The location lies at the edge of the Jeseníky mountains, so sturdy footwear is helpful for exploring the area.

The church's organ, built by the Brauner brothers of Uničov in the late 19th century, is a single-manual instrument with unusual technical and tonal solutions that survived in its original state; it was fully restored between 2021 and 2024. A memorial plaque by the church recalls the reeve Axmann and his wife, burned in Sobotín during the witch trials.

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